English Phonology and Morphology

3

VOWELS

"It is in vowels that accents of English differ most, often quite radically."

the most difficult thing about describing vowels:

they have no readily identifiable place of articulation because there is no obstruction during their production

Three parameters:- oral/nasal

- rounded/unrounded- tongue position: vertical/horizontal

The vowel space:

Match the synonyms:

High, low, front, back, open, close, magas, mély, nyílt, zárt

Match the synonyms:

High = close = zártLow = open = nyílt

Front = 'magas'Back = 'mély'

Cardinal vowels??

Kristó's symbols for RP short vowels

Kristó's symbols for RP short vowels

Kristó's symbols for RP long monophthongs

AdvRP monophthongs

RP diphthongs

RP diphthongs

RP vs. GA (Wells)

Follow-up on articulatory phonetics

Which of the articulators move when producing the following (Hungarian) sequences?

a. mumu b. iáiác. dndndn d. dldldle. éőéő f. üuüu